Woman guilty in jail assault

Thursday

Nov 7, 2013 at 7:00 PMNov 7, 2013 at 7:24 PM

By Daily Telegram staff

A 24-year-old Adrian woman waived an insanity defense and pleaded guilty to resisting a Lenawee County Jail officer on May 20 while she was waiting to be sentenced in a robbery case. Sarah Marie Vanblaircom entered the plea Wednesday in Lenawee County Circuit Court.

A psychological evaluation was ordered in June after Vanblaircom disrupted sentencing proceedings with two outbursts in Judge Margaret M.S. Noe’s courtroom. She had pleaded guilty in April to a reduced larceny count stemming from a robbery at a Raisin Township home in October.

Vanblaircom was ruled competent Wednesday, based on a report from a state psychologist. The report indicated she was not criminally responsible at the time a jail officer was assaulted, said public defender Eric Kyser. But she waived an insanity defense and pleaded guilty to a reduced resisting charge.

“We had a struggle when I was being placed in a restraining chair. It was a blur at the time, but I do recall a struggle,” Vanblaircom told the court. She is to be sentenced Dec. 11.

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